Stadia works, but here are 10 features it needs to add in a hurry
Google’s Stadia cloud gaming service works (here’s our review), enabling me to play games in a data center and have them streamed to my...
Cloud gaming like Stadia will need novel tech solutions
Two recent announcements signal games developers are realizing that, for cloud gaming, matching a player to their location and then placing game servers closer...
Google Stadia’s Phil Harrison: Cloud-based gaming will be a difficult but ‘fundamental shift’
With Stadia, Google is trying to change the way people play games. And if the upcoming cloud gaming service takes off, the company hopes...
The DeanBeat: Telling stories at GamesBeat Summit 2019
We’ve got 97 luminaries speaking at our GamesBeat Summit 2019 event on April 23-24 in Los Angeles. I’ve spent the better part of six...
GamesBeat Summit: Amy Hennig, Tina Amini, and Stanley Pierre-Louis bring new perspectives
Amy Hennig tells good stories. They have engrossing plots, deep characters, and rich backdrops. And that’s one of the reasons the co-creator of games...
The DeanBeat: The accidental game companies have become intentional
Gamers have been excited about battle royale games like Apex Legends and Fortnite. But if you pull up 10,000 feet to see what’s really...
Phil Harrison’s next stop is at the GamesBeat Summit
Google’s leadership team trusted Phil Harrison to head the search company’s foray into games. As vice president in charge of Google Stadia, Harrison has...
John Riccitiello interview — Is Epic buying Unity’s developers?
John Riccitiello, the CEO of Unity Technologies, has always liked Tim Sweeney, the CEO of Epic Games, and the healthy competition between the game...
The DeanBeat: Why Phil Harrison joined Google to launch the Stadia cloud gaming platform
Google is finally taking the game business seriously. Not satisfied with its role as owner of Android and the operator of the Google Play...
Google unveils Stadia cloud gaming platform to play games anywhere
Google CEO Sundar Pichai and executive Phil Harrison introduced Google’s cloud gaming platform, Stadia, at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. They also showed...